Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.